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When the past is dug up in documentaries (or docudramas), events are often sensationalized. This practice is of long pedigree: Shakespeare was not above amping up an old story when it suited his needs. Unfortunately, few filmmakers are at Shakespeare’s level, and the sensationalism ends up being no more than that. The viewer has no better sense of the past than he did when he began. The only sense the viewer has is the sense that she has been had. On the other hand, from time to time a documentary digs up the past but cools down the facts, making them approachable in a way that would have been impossible…

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You may use Flipboard as a nifty way to organize news and media in which you have an interest. (If you don’t use Flipboard, try it). For mysterious reasons, Flipboard decided to do a “spotlight” on me as a “Magazine Maker.” (“Magazines” are the way you organize stories in Flipboard). Here is the story: Attorney and White Collar Wire Blogger Jack Sharman My name is Jack Sharman. I’m a lawyer who blogs at White Collar Wire about white-collar criminal defense, crime fiction, cocktails and theology. My love of narrative led me to all of those topics. Juror, reader, drinker, sinner: everyone needs a good story. I use Flipboard “inbound” as…

This weekend, flip through White Collar magazine (by Jack Sharman) http://flip.it/rkxEc and follow it for white-collar news and notes. If you don’t use Flipboard, it is very handy as a personalized news aggregator.

With some trepidation, we finally took the plunge and established a White Collar Wire page on Facebook. Please go over there and “like” it, “friend” it and otherwise approve us. I promise it will contain no vacation photos, nor my childrens’ witticisms nor Vine renditions of athletic events. Even better, visually, is that White Collar Wire is now on Tumblr as well. Finally, for sound business-crime weekend reading on either platform, you cannot do better than Smash Detective-Cases: